hot-rolled drive steels
High-strength advantages for economical lightweight design
A hot recommendation in the field of hot forming. The high-strength hot-rolled drive steels have been developed especially for lightweight automotive design in order to be able to produce stamped components, even those with complex geometries, in an economical and reliable cold-forming process.
Exceeding the norm is the norm!
The hot-rolled drive steels impressively exceed the properties set forth in VDA 239-100. With thicknesses of up to 6 mm, they extend the thickness range beyond cold-rolled ahss steels. Their features and advantages are convincing:
- Ideal for complex components with sheet thicknesses beginning at 2 mm
- Ideal for cutting, punching, bending, deep drawing, welding
- Narrowest thickness tolerances
- Available in uncoated or hot-dip galvanized condition
- Available in greentec steel with a reduced carbon footprint
More than optimum materials
Providing the best support is also the norm. Material parameters, component tests, data for forming and crash simulations are also available with expertise in welding technologies. When it comes to test deliveries or materials for prototype production, voestalpine provides support for the approval process and is highly flexible.
Broad steel spectrum, tailor-made solutions
Hot-rolled drive provides the optimum steel for a wide range of applications with a specific strength class and forming requirements:
Hot-rolled microalloyed steels with a wide range of strengths and steels with excellent formability on punched edges (LAS series)
Hot-rolled complex phase steels with excellent balanced properties in terms of global and local formability and high strength
Hot-rolled ferritic-bainitic steels for complex forming operations with the convincing plus in hole widening on punched edges
Hot-rolled dual-phase steels for global forming operations are the benchmark for deep drawing with high drawing depths
Hot-rolled martensitic steels for the ideal combination of highest strength, excellent flexibility and profiling
hot-rolled drive: Material & Performance Facts
Would you like to find out more about the performance of hot-rolled drive steels for lightweight automotive design? Download more information about high-strength hot-rolled steels here and see for yourself!
